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it's election day in venezuela, and the news just announced by the election's council. when and how did the news come down? we just spoke moments ago, and now we didn't know and now we do. >> reporter: we learned about 15 minutes ago, don, on social media we could see that chavez won, and we had sources inside the electoral commission, and it's 51% to 45% for the pop seugs. it was not as close as people thought it might be. and we could not report it because of the phmedia restrictions right now. it's like the fourth of july out here, and the fireworks are still going. and by any measure this is a crushing defeat for the opposition. they made a house to house battle for this vote, and there were many things to complain about. hugo chavez threw everything including the kitchen sink at this election, he gave out many things, cell phones, and he has been on the nationalized campaign, and nationalized almost 1,000 businesses. many say they will see more of this and in the long run, this will end up hurting the venezuela economy more than it will help it, don. >> yeah, i was
it's election day in venezuela, and the news just announced by the election's council. when and how did the news come down? we just spoke moments ago, and now we didn't know and now we do. >> reporter: we learned about 15 minutes ago, don, on social media we could see that chavez won, and we had sources inside the electoral commission, and it's 51% to 45% for the pop seugs. it was not as close as people thought it might be. and we could not report it because of the phmedia restrictions...
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and election day is today. venezuela, where that man you're about to see, president hugo chavez has been in power for 13 years now. that's chavez voting today, trying for another term. there is no limit to the number of terms a president can serve there. chavez himself made that rule. but analysts say if anyone can unseat this president, it's the man facing him today. a 40-year-old governor. let's get to caracas right now. paula, it's after 9:00 p.m. polls were scheduled to close hours ago. but they're still open. what's going on? >> reporter: a few are still open. if you were in any polling station, you know the lineups were huge. the turnout could be approaching 80%. the electoral commission stayed true to word and allowed the polls to stay open. we're getting word that perhaps they reached critical mass. that means 80% to 90% of the votes have been counted. we expect results in the next hour or so, don. >> what has energized voters so much to stay at polling places and wait in really long lines? >> reporter:
and election day is today. venezuela, where that man you're about to see, president hugo chavez has been in power for 13 years now. that's chavez voting today, trying for another term. there is no limit to the number of terms a president can serve there. chavez himself made that rule. but analysts say if anyone can unseat this president, it's the man facing him today. a 40-year-old governor. let's get to caracas right now. paula, it's after 9:00 p.m. polls were scheduled to close hours ago. but...
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turning to international news now, it's election day in venezuela. people are going to the polls to vote for their next president. president hugo chavez is hoping to hold onto his power. his challenge this election is a centrist state governor. paula newton is live for us from caracas. paula, we hear there were lots of long lines outside the voting stations well before the doors even opened. how is it going? >> reporter: long lines including where hugo chavez voted. i'm not sure at our elections people wait that long, three, four, five six hours some people still in line. we are getting hints they have to keep the polls longer than 6:00 p.m., which is when they were scheduled to close locally. having sdz that, things were calm where hugo chavez was voting. he voted and there was quite a bit of commotion outside after that. what is clear here, fred, and this is important in this very tight race, he says that he will live by the result, whatever it is, if that means that even if it sweeps him out of office. take a listen. >> translator: none of you sho
turning to international news now, it's election day in venezuela. people are going to the polls to vote for their next president. president hugo chavez is hoping to hold onto his power. his challenge this election is a centrist state governor. paula newton is live for us from caracas. paula, we hear there were lots of long lines outside the voting stations well before the doors even opened. how is it going? >> reporter: long lines including where hugo chavez voted. i'm not sure at our...
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if the election is close enough, they could decide the election. that's why you see voting there. most of them live in miami, but since the consulate was closed in miami, they were forced to drive or fly a thousand miles away to new orleans. but they did and that shows you how committed they are. >> a lot of them convoys, too. listen, when we say what's at stake, obviously these people have strong feelings about the selection, what does happen if it does not go hugo chavez's way? >> he was asked what would happen if he doesn't win, he said we have the potential for civil war because he says his followers are so committed, are so energized that they would not take anything other than a chavez victory. we don't know if this is extremist rhetoric or the truth, but the reality is that's what he said and he has the armed forces who are fiercely loyal to him. so there's no way and there's a history of violence in venezuela. an attempt at a coup in 1992. there could be another one here. >>> still ahead, israel may have discovered the owner of the drone it shot down. which country got cau
if the election is close enough, they could decide the election. that's why you see voting there. most of them live in miami, but since the consulate was closed in miami, they were forced to drive or fly a thousand miles away to new orleans. but they did and that shows you how committed they are. >> a lot of them convoys, too. listen, when we say what's at stake, obviously these people have strong feelings about the selection, what does happen if it does not go hugo chavez's way? >>...
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. >>> it's presidential election day in venezuela. analysts say this is the strongest challenge yet to the 13-year rule of hugo chavez. his opponent is young, 40 years old, considered a moderate. many venezuelans living here traveled long distances to vote absentee. >>> people marched through ma tl drid in the video you almost saw there. opposition to spending cuts program worth billions of dollars. also protests of dozens of other cities. labor unions are threatening to strike if the government refuses to allow a general vote on the austerity measures. the protests appeared peaceful. no reports of any violence thankfully. >>> tonight's spacex launch will officially turn space into a business. the resupply mission to the international space mission will launch from cape canaveral, florida. spacex successfully demonstrated it could do the job in may when it docked a capsule with the space station. we'll go live to florida later on this hour. ♪ >>> ll, republican voters in port st. lucie, florida, are turning out in big numbers for th
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and i'm glad that it's happening and i'm glad it's happening possibly just before the election. >> if the numbers are accurate, that's always a positive thing. i don't know how you could spin it negatively but i'm sure someone will. >> it's encouraging but i don't know that it's where it's going to stay. i feel like it might go back up. i'm hopeful that it could stay down and i'm hopeful the jobs are coming back, but it just seems like it's too soon to tell that it's going to keep declining. >> you can see the jobs numbers elicited cautious optimism in many people. others, like one former ceo, suggested the administration was playing fast and loose with the numbers. some people were upset by that. >> to say something like this is like donald trump saying that president obama is not an american citizen without any proof. you are jack welch. >> more of that heated exchange next. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? â
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>>> with the election just 32 days away, the pressure is on. the pressure is on for both parties to woo hispanic voters. it is especially true in battleground states like nevada, where republicans are polling way behind democrats with latinos. is it too little too late for republicans in nevada? that is something that soledad o'brien is taking a close look at in her upcoming documentary, calling it latino in america, courting their vote. >> reporter: las vegas, nevada, beyond the glitz and the glamour in the shadow of high rollers and high stakes gambling is high stakes politics. ♪ this is the las vegas you rarely see. nevada is home to the fastest growing latino population in the country. more than a quarter of the state's population is now hispanic. in 2008, those latino voters helped turn this historically republican state democratic. and, again, all eyes are on this crucial swing state and its six electoral votes. >> the goal is to get as much support as we can from the hispanic community. >> reporter: hector is one of the people in charg
>>> with the election just 32 days away, the pressure is on. the pressure is on for both parties to woo hispanic voters. it is especially true in battleground states like nevada, where republicans are polling way behind democrats with latinos. is it too little too late for republicans in nevada? that is something that soledad o'brien is taking a close look at in her upcoming documentary, calling it latino in america, courting their vote. >> reporter: las vegas, nevada, beyond the...
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presidential election. the man going up against him enrique made a strong showing, but it was chavez who ended up winning more than 54% of the vote. i want to bring in rafael romo. have i to ask you, are these numbers legitimate? is this a legitimate election when you hear that turnout was more than, what, 81%? >> that was the first question that everybody had, right? when enrique came out last night and recognized official lids those results, you have to believe what the opposition is saying. they had a precedence in every single one of all polling places throughout venezuela, and they didn't see any irregularities. i haven't seen any evidence to the contrary, no evidence of tampering. >> you have been covering this. you talked a little bit this strategy from hugo chavez, some of the things, big give-aways, homes, refrigerators, all that. he just -- all the tactics, right, that could possibly be used to get voters to support him. >> well, the reality in venezuela is that apparently giving hand-outs to the
presidential election. the man going up against him enrique made a strong showing, but it was chavez who ended up winning more than 54% of the vote. i want to bring in rafael romo. have i to ask you, are these numbers legitimate? is this a legitimate election when you hear that turnout was more than, what, 81%? >> that was the first question that everybody had, right? when enrique came out last night and recognized official lids those results, you have to believe what the opposition is...
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this election could be very close. some people filtered out exit polls already, and they're vastly different. each side is saying they're going to win. listen to a young voter that i spoke to earlier today, and listen to what he told me when i asked him about voting. you don't want to say who you're voting for? >> yes, because the vote is secret. the important thing is that every venezuelan is going to vote and make his or her decision. >> reporter: many people say this vote will be momentous if people that want to vote for the opposition actually get out and vote. there is a suspicion that the government will know how you voted and hold it against you later on. everyone from the opposition to the government to the electoral commission has been telling people to vote. it will stay secret, but still, a lot of suspicion here. >> paula newton, thanks so much in caracas. >>> venezuelan ex-patriots in the u.s. are voting. there were a lot of long lines in the early hours of the morning in new orleans. senior latin affairs e
this election could be very close. some people filtered out exit polls already, and they're vastly different. each side is saying they're going to win. listen to a young voter that i spoke to earlier today, and listen to what he told me when i asked him about voting. you don't want to say who you're voting for? >> yes, because the vote is secret. the important thing is that every venezuelan is going to vote and make his or her decision. >> reporter: many people say this vote will be...
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. >>> all right, turning to international news now, it's election day in venezuela. people are going to the polls to vote for their next president. there were long lines outside voting stations well before doors opened, and despite some delays, voting is going smoothly. even venezuelan ex patriots in new orleans lined up to vote in the early morning. chavez is hoping to hold onto power. his challenging is a centrist state governor. >>> they're examining a drone that entered their air space. the military shot down the craft as it entered the southern part of the country. israeli security experts suspect the drone came from lebanon and not ghaza. so far nobody has claimed responsibility for it. >>> now to the conflict in syria. shelling continuing to cross the syrian turkish border for the fifth day now. this morning turkey fired four retaliatory shells into serbia. the shells landed very close to a border town. leon panetta described his concern about this recent development. 100 people have been killed in the violence across syria today. >>> the second round of debat
. >>> all right, turning to international news now, it's election day in venezuela. people are going to the polls to vote for their next president. there were long lines outside voting stations well before doors opened, and despite some delays, voting is going smoothly. even venezuelan ex patriots in new orleans lined up to vote in the early morning. chavez is hoping to hold onto power. his challenging is a centrist state governor. >>> they're examining a drone that entered...
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one more jobs report until the election. >> okay. so the political implications of this already coming in. in fact, we just got an e-mail from conservatives. this is what they're saying, christine. conservatives are challenging the legitimacy of the labor department number. can someone explain how the jobs added up right where economists were projecting and yet the rate fell to below 8%? also jack welch, the former ge guy. >> yep. >> he's tweeting this morning and saying, unbelievable jobs numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can't debate, so change numbers. i mean -- so is it possible the labor department is lying or has changed these numbers in some way? >> look, these numbers are often revised. usually when you have a vibrant growing jobs market a revision of 86,000 doesn't make any difference at all. you have much more jobs being created. we don't have that right now. in terms of why the two numbers are different, there are two different surveys the government does. hou household survey where they ask people wheer they'r
one more jobs report until the election. >> okay. so the political implications of this already coming in. in fact, we just got an e-mail from conservatives. this is what they're saying, christine. conservatives are challenging the legitimacy of the labor department number. can someone explain how the jobs added up right where economists were projecting and yet the rate fell to below 8%? also jack welch, the former ge guy. >> yep. >> he's tweeting this morning and saying,...
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>> if you could see any american elected president, who would you choose? and why? >> i'd say clint eastwood would have to be my guy. >> why don't we ask him? >> what do you think is the most fundamental problem with the public political discourse? >> stewart. >> even though the mock debate was heavy on laughs, the two men hit on issues of substance, too. even giving president obama and mitt romney tips on their next debate. their advice? stick to the issues. >>> good-bye 55. more and more states up the speed limit despite more traffic fatalities. the question is, why? >>> 30 minutes past the hour. good morning to you. i'm carol costello. stories we're watching right now in the "newsroom." we're just seconds away from the opening bell at the new york stock exchange. u.s. stocks set for a lower open at the new trading week begins. investors aren't really optimistic about a report on asia's economic outlook. executives from the security company adt are ringing the opening bell this morning. >>> venezuelan president hugo chavez thanking supporters and celebrating anoth
>> if you could see any american elected president, who would you choose? and why? >> i'd say clint eastwood would have to be my guy. >> why don't we ask him? >> what do you think is the most fundamental problem with the public political discourse? >> stewart. >> even though the mock debate was heavy on laughs, the two men hit on issues of substance, too. even giving president obama and mitt romney tips on their next debate. their advice? stick to the issues....
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where they can vote in tomorrow's election. volunteers say at least 7,000 will go to new orleans from florida, to cast ballots. the current president, hugo chavez, running for another six-year term, first elected president in 1998. >>> and a rocket from a private company set to launch tomorrow carrying supplies from the international space station. this space flight is huge, because it is the first contracted cargo re-supply flight in nasa's history. the others were scheduled at 8 p.m. eastern. >>> and a group of military wives making quite a statement as part of an effort to combat post traumatic stress disorder. this shows a woman holding her husband's gun, showing the heartfelt support, written across her back. her husband sought help for ptsd, but it was not enough. >> our soldiers have a lot to say. they have a lot bottled up inside of them. and no one is listening. i feel like they're afraid to be able to say what they need to say, because they're afraid it is going to hurt their record. >> after just a few months the pho
where they can vote in tomorrow's election. volunteers say at least 7,000 will go to new orleans from florida, to cast ballots. the current president, hugo chavez, running for another six-year term, first elected president in 1998. >>> and a rocket from a private company set to launch tomorrow carrying supplies from the international space station. this space flight is huge, because it is the first contracted cargo re-supply flight in nasa's history. the others were scheduled at 8 p.m....
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four weeks, four weeks until the election. and mitt romney pivots with a foreign policy speech. >> it is our responsibility and the responsibility of the president to use america's greatest power to shape history. not to lead from behind, leaving our destiny at the mercy of events. drones and modern instruments of war are important tools in our fight. but they are no substitute for a national security strategy for the middle east. i know the president hopes for a safer, freer and more prosperous middle east, allied with us. i share this hope. but hope is not a strategy. we can't support our friends and defeat our enemies in the middle east when our words are not backed up by deeds. >> mitt romney's foreign policy speech was weighted heavily toward the turbulent situation throughout the middle east. we'll examine that much more here in just a moment in detail. first, let me give you the big picture. as i mentioned, four weeks from the election here, we are seeing a possible shift in favor of mitt romney. look at the numbers wit
four weeks, four weeks until the election. and mitt romney pivots with a foreign policy speech. >> it is our responsibility and the responsibility of the president to use america's greatest power to shape history. not to lead from behind, leaving our destiny at the mercy of events. drones and modern instruments of war are important tools in our fight. but they are no substitute for a national security strategy for the middle east. i know the president hopes for a safer, freer and more...
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i want to go back to something, four days before the presidential election is when the next jobs report is going to come out. if they go down even further? what does that mean if. >> it could go down. it could also go back up. >> right. >> this has been an economic recovery that's been a difficult one. the administration says that as well. this was a great jobs report for the president. it broke down past that 8% mark that mitt romney's been hitting so hard in this campaign. >> you can imagine -- >> this is a great day for the president. >> you can imagine the white house and probably the campaign in chicago doing somersaults. does this make people now say, what debate? by most people's accounts, the president was awful, horrible. that's what everyone says, even ardent obama supporters. does this cancel out his performance, what debate, the jobs are getting better? >> americans have very short memories. i don't think their memories are quite that short. this debate was only a few days ago. we have two more presidential debates to come and a vp debate next week. no, i do not think it era
i want to go back to something, four days before the presidential election is when the next jobs report is going to come out. if they go down even further? what does that mean if. >> it could go down. it could also go back up. >> right. >> this has been an economic recovery that's been a difficult one. the administration says that as well. this was a great jobs report for the president. it broke down past that 8% mark that mitt romney's been hitting so hard in this campaign....
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elections. it was an advantage that many democrats took advantage of. they would organize buses from, you know, sunday church services or from union offices. and bus folks down to the board of elections to vote. that window right now is influx. because the state republican officials challenged it, a federal judge ordered that banning those three days in person is unconstitutional and now there's an appeal process, there's a lot of uncertainty following the final three days. there's a lot of time for people to vote a 35-day window. and i imagine that many will wait until that last week or so to do so. >> and, you know, republicans would say they're just trying to make sure there's no voter fraud during this election and that's why there have been all these efforts, you know, to kind of like trim back early voting. i mean, aaron, from your reporting, what's the real reason behind this? >> well, the reason they say is, again, to curb fraud, but when you look at the evidence, i think someone here wi
elections. it was an advantage that many democrats took advantage of. they would organize buses from, you know, sunday church services or from union offices. and bus folks down to the board of elections to vote. that window right now is influx. because the state republican officials challenged it, a federal judge ordered that banning those three days in person is unconstitutional and now there's an appeal process, there's a lot of uncertainty following the final three days. there's a lot of...
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kennedy goes on the win the election. in 1976 president gerald ford makes this blunder in his debate with georgia governor jimmy carter. >> there's no soviet domination of eastern europe and never will be under a ford administration. >> i'm sorry. could i -- >> reporter: the remark becomes a central theme in carter's campaign and costs ford the election. in 1980 ronald reagan is repeatedly attacked by president carter for his stance on health care. >> governor reagan as a matter of fact began his political career campaigning around this nation against medicare. >> reporter: reagan wins fans and the election by staying cool. >> there you go again. >> reporter: four years later president reagan uses humor to handle attacks on his age during his debate with walter mondale. >> i want you to know also i will not make age an issue of this kane. i won't exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. [ laughter ] >> reporter: in the next election democratic candidate michael dukakis is asked this controversi
kennedy goes on the win the election. in 1976 president gerald ford makes this blunder in his debate with georgia governor jimmy carter. >> there's no soviet domination of eastern europe and never will be under a ford administration. >> i'm sorry. could i -- >> reporter: the remark becomes a central theme in carter's campaign and costs ford the election. in 1980 ronald reagan is repeatedly attacked by president carter for his stance on health care. >> governor reagan as...
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want to get right to it. 32 days until the election. now this. >> this morning we found out that the unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level since i took office. >> the reason it's come down this year is primarily due to the fact that more and more people have just stopped looking for work. if you just drop out of the work force, if you just give up and say, look, i can't go back to work, i'm just going to stay home -- if you just dropped out altogether, why, you're no longer part of the employment statistics. >> this is what everybody is talking about this morning and this afternoon. the nation's unemployment rate now dropping below 8% for the first time in almost four years. it shows unemployment at 7.8%. christine romans who is joining us live from new york to break it down. we have 114,000 more folks that are working. what does it mean in the big picture about the economy and where the jobs are? >> it means that the economy is slowly healing, slowly. very slowly healing. the 7.8% unemployment rate definitely an improvement.
want to get right to it. 32 days until the election. now this. >> this morning we found out that the unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level since i took office. >> the reason it's come down this year is primarily due to the fact that more and more people have just stopped looking for work. if you just drop out of the work force, if you just give up and say, look, i can't go back to work, i'm just going to stay home -- if you just dropped out altogether, why, you're no...
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election. why would we listen? today it is all about foreign policy. mitt romney's foreign policy trip was this summer. do you remember it? romn romney's campaign is hoping you will forget about a lot of widely criticized missteps and instead focus on the criticism that he is getting ready just in the next few moments to level at president obama. over these countries on your screen, and the escalating violence and the tensions right across the arab world, these images, essentially layout romney's foreign policy speech at a glance. that includes the terrorist attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. you can expect that romney will jab at that potential foreign policy achilles heel for president obama. you're about to hear it directly from romney himself. we go to live picture once again. we're waiting on the governor at the virginia military institute. he likely back stage getting ready to take the stage at any moment which is why we also have all of our producers and our reporters around the world at cnn waiting and watching this alongside of you to b
election. why would we listen? today it is all about foreign policy. mitt romney's foreign policy trip was this summer. do you remember it? romn romney's campaign is hoping you will forget about a lot of widely criticized missteps and instead focus on the criticism that he is getting ready just in the next few moments to level at president obama. over these countries on your screen, and the escalating violence and the tensions right across the arab world, these images, essentially layout...
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compared to the economy, not so much, but in a very close election, in a very close election, which it seems to be shaping up that way, these issues do matter, and that's why there's such emphasis on that -- this issue. that's why it is such an important topic. fred. >> all right. thank you so much. paul steinhauser, appreciate that. >> just one day to go before paul ryan and vice president joe biden meet in their first and only debate. president obama's lackluster performance last week may have raised the stakes now. the debate takes place tomorrow night in danville, kentucky. ryan arrives in kentucky later on today. the vice president is prepping at his home in delaware. once again, mitt romney is trying to lower expectations. here's what he told wolf blitzer. >> are you confident, governor, that paul ryan will take on joe biden thursday night the way you took on the president? >> you know what, i don't know how paul will deal with in debate. obviously the vice president has done, i don't know, 15 or 20 debates during his lifetime. experienced debater. this is -- i think paul's first
compared to the economy, not so much, but in a very close election, in a very close election, which it seems to be shaping up that way, these issues do matter, and that's why there's such emphasis on that -- this issue. that's why it is such an important topic. fred. >> all right. thank you so much. paul steinhauser, appreciate that. >> just one day to go before paul ryan and vice president joe biden meet in their first and only debate. president obama's lackluster performance last...
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it's difficult to know where the election is going to go tromthat point. that's not a position that hugo chavez is used to finding himself in. the economy has done well in the last 14 years since hugo chavez has come into power. on the other hand, many say it was at the expense of a lot of infrastructure in the country and basically the government was taking the oil profits and trying to redistribute it and not spending in a very efficient way. it's hard to believe, this country still has huge infrastructure problems. you look around sometimes, anything from medical to the roads to schools, and it still has a ways to go even though it had all of that oil wealth. >> what is the explanation behind that? that's a big contradiction. >> it is a big contradiction, and you know, hugo chavez has been in power for a long time. says look, it takes time. that's my explanation. if you look at the indicators, yes, people in extreme poverty, he has been able to bring down the numbers. at the same time, his challenger, a 40-year-old man, lawyer, comes from the elite but
it's difficult to know where the election is going to go tromthat point. that's not a position that hugo chavez is used to finding himself in. the economy has done well in the last 14 years since hugo chavez has come into power. on the other hand, many say it was at the expense of a lot of infrastructure in the country and basically the government was taking the oil profits and trying to redistribute it and not spending in a very efficient way. it's hard to believe, this country still has huge...
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at this point in an election, that is really, really critical. let's look at it from mitt romney's camp. a couple of days, he had conservative columnists saying let's cut our losses and put our money in our resources towards getting the senate saying, you know, forget it, it's game over. now, they are not saying that at all. so that is going to help romney with energy when it comes to grassroots campaigning and energy when it comes to fund-raising and donors so that all cannot be sdouptdiscounted. will it win him the presidency? not by a long shot, but it makes the navive and discussion about this campaign completely different than it was yesterday. >> dana bash is reporting live for us thanks so. >>> the law about the economy last night and hard to know who is telling the truth. president obama would say one thing and governor romney would contradict it, especially on tax cuts. so who has the answers? i know. our chief business correspondent ali velshi is here. i've missed you! >> we spent very early mornings together and nice we both get to sle
at this point in an election, that is really, really critical. let's look at it from mitt romney's camp. a couple of days, he had conservative columnists saying let's cut our losses and put our money in our resources towards getting the senate saying, you know, forget it, it's game over. now, they are not saying that at all. so that is going to help romney with energy when it comes to grassroots campaigning and energy when it comes to fund-raising and donors so that all cannot be...